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7 eras · 1229–2026 · 3 places

Mallorca

Palma, Inca, Llucmajor, Santa Margalida, s'Arenal. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1229–1349 James I's conquest — the Kingdom of Majorca (from 1276) no registers survive

Before registers. James I of Aragon took Palma at the end of 1229; the Kingdom of Majorca was created in 1276 and took in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, with Roussillon and Cerdanya. It passed to the Crown of Aragon in 1344 or 1349 depending on the source (Peter IV invaded in 1343; James III was killed at Llucmajor on 25 October 1349).
1349–1715 Crown of Aragon — Kingdom of Majorca (own viceroy) FamilySearch

The kingdom remained separate, with its own viceroy and the same king as Aragon, until 1715. Parish registers follow the Council of Trent (1545 and 1563).
1715–1871 Kingdom of Spain — Nueva Planta (Balearic province from 1833) FamilySearch

The Nueva Planta decree for Mallorca is dated 28 November 1715; it partly repealed the Mallorcan franqueses and made Castilian the language of government. The Balearics became a Spanish province in 1833. Parish registers are the record until civil registration in 1871.
1871–1931 Kingdom of Spain PARES · FamilySearch

Civil registration begins in 1871 under the law of 17 June 1870, though some municipalities have records from as early as 1837. The registers stay in each municipality's local archive; certified copies come from the Ministerio de Justicia or the local Juzgado de Paz / Oficina del Registro Civil.
1931–1936 Second Spanish Republic PARES · FamilySearch

The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931.
1936–1975 Francoist Spain — the Nationalist zone PARES · FamilySearch

Mallorca supported the Nationalists; Republican forces failed to take it in the August 1936 Battle of Majorca. Under Franco's State.
1975–2026 Kingdom of Spain — Balearic Islands autonomous community PARES · FamilySearch

The islands gained self-government under their first Statute of Autonomy in 1983.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1229–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

3 places on this ground

47 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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